Taking advantage of Facebook's new layout to make a cool screenshot using the Gimp

Facebook's new layout has a bit more pictures on it, which makes it handy if you want to make a creative screenshot.  This will be a qui...

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How to make a flash diffuser and reflector from your existing built in flash

  There are hundreds of easy ways you can build a flash diffuser and reflector, but I think this is by far the easiest and cheapest. Rea...

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How to make Wassail - The cheap and easy way (the geeky way)

Yay for Christmas!  Yay for wassail.  This is the quick and easy way to make it.  Since this is a blog for geeks, this is NOT a recipe; just...

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How to make a Christmas card or flier - Elegant style

This is another Christmas card/flier/invite tutorial using Inkscape.  This one will be a bit more elegant and feature a Christmas tree made...

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How to make a Christmas card or flier - Christmas present style

For this tutorial I will show you how to make a Christmas card or flier using Inkscape.  The end result will be a card that looks like a Chr...

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Tip of the Day - Portrait photography using a zoom/telephoto lens

Usually when you want to take nice portrait pictures, you will use a nice, fast lens, and adjust your aperture to get a blurry background. T...

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How to switch the face of someone famous with your face

A few years ago I started making a lot of cheesy Valentines with my face inserted on the body of someone famous.  Then I would write somethi...

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